[RightOnTheBorder]

Texas energy sector is incredibly corrupt. Connected pigs rake in the cash building subsidized windmills which produce power at 3x the cost. Energy rates are free market but infrastructure costs are still regulated by ercot. To hide wind costs grid maintenance is delayed. Thus Texas now has an expensive unreliable grid.

[vpintheak]

I’ve heard the same. ERCOT is not great.

[Zhang Fei]

[Energy rates are free market but infrastructure costs are still regulated by ercot. To hide wind costs grid maintenance is delayed. Thus Texas now has an expensive unreliable grid.]

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That was kinda what I expected. The periodic checks on power poles and transmission towers or replacements of same are deferred because they never had issues before. Then they get a hurricane or tornado, and some multiple of the accumulated maintenance savings are wiped out as the economy grinds to a complete halt because of a prolonged regional power outage.